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Announcing the launch of a major new publication by FrenchMottershead
People, Places, Process: The Shops Project
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Published by Site Gallery
Edited by Gerrie van Noord
Designed: Sara De Bondt
This publication compiles four years of research, documentation and artworks that have resulted from FrenchMottershead's international Shops project, which looks at society through the lens
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Texts by the artists and local writers from the cities they've visited - including Ljubljana, São Paulo, Salvador, Iasi, Istanbul, Guangzhou and Sheffield - sit alongside contributions from Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography at The University of Sheffield, writer and lecturer Emma Cocker, and artist and writer Tim Etchells. Together they show, describe and analyse unique customers' and shop owners' stories in a range of different shopping landscapes, emphasising their differences but also revealing their connections and common grounds.
Published to accompany the project and the exhibition The Shops Project,
Site Gallery, Sheffield, 21 November 2009—13 February 2010.
The residencies and work periods that resulted in work represented in the exhibition and this book took place in: Bahia, Brazil, January 2008; São Paulo, Brazil, February—March 2008; Guangzhou, China, April-May 2008; Iasi, Romania, November—December 2008; Ljubljana, Slovenia, March—April 2009; Istanbul, Turkey, June—July 2009; Sheffield, England, August-November 2009.
Earlier Shops works were commissioned by the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland in 2005, and subsequently in the United Kingdom
by Newlyn Gallery and ArtSurgery, Penzance, the Liverpool Biennial
and EASTinternational, Norwich.
Commissioned and produced by Site
Gallery, and funded by Arts
Council England: Grants fr the Arts, Artists Links Brazil, the EU Culture Programme 2007, and the Raitu Family Foundation.
The Shops Project has been supported by: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts,
China; Vector Association, Iasi, Romania; Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey.
FrenchMottershead/Site Gallery, 2010, 220 pages, paperback, 40 full colour and 180 black and white photographs throughout, 17cm x 24cm.
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